Cloud Computing: The Beginners Guide

The topic every one is talking about now a days. It is actually a computing paradigm, the paradigm of the future. What is actually cloud computing? I define it as the generation of computers that utilizes servers some where in the cloud for data storage, management or computing resources allowing the world to become more efficient in technology. So what is the point of it? Let us consider a company that provides an online solution to some thing. And it is a software solution. They charge some thing for the solution, the data storage is provided, even if they don’t charge, Let us consider what things they have to look in. they need to look into things like overhead costs, customer satisfaction, etc. The most important thing is customer satisfaction. As if the customer is not satisfies the customer might simply leave the service. And if a customer is satisfied with the service, he/she might recommend the software to other users.

Now if the companies number of clients increase, they need more storage. Normally this costs the company buying new servers, and hiring highly trained staff to handle the servers. If there is a trend in decrement for the time period for some reason, the servers are still there and being operated, This means they have to pay whether they are using there servers or no. Giving rise to another point Server is not cheap and not possible for every one to maintain. So this is where we can talk about cloud computing. With cloud computing, we contact a company that provides services that is cloud computing. What is the point? We can get the same server capability for a far lesser amount and there are no hardware problems to deal with. The company that provides the cloud has to deal with the actual hardware. We can get resources at an instant click, and we can get rid of them when ever we don’t need them we can get rid of them. It is like a pay as you go service. Only you pay for what you have been using. Well there are three very big advantages of cloud computing, which are scalability, instantaneous and saves money.

Let us getting back to the solution the company was providing. With cloud computing, the company can now focus on there solution and forget about the issues with the hardware of the servers. And make a better solution by improving their solutions. It does not require any maintenance.

There are 3 trends in cloud computing which are Virtualization, Utility Computing and Software as a Service. So in simple words cloud computing, is the future of computing which can affect the business quite a lot if it is used properly.